New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1903.
Price: $350.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Large octavo. 299pp. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates. Topedge gilt. Blue pictorial cloth printed in white on cover with pictorial image of three mountain climbers on a mountain peak on front cover. A fine copy. The author, Elizabeth Alice Frances Hawkins-Whitshed Le Blond was the only daughter of an Irish Baronet, and a mountaineer, author and photographer. She eventually spent time in Switzerland, became an enthusiastic climber, making first ascents of several peaks, helped found the Ladies Alpine Club in 1907, the first mountaineering club for women and became its first president. Married three times, she wrote seven books on mountain climbing, and she was also a pioneer in female film-making (she made at least 10 films devoted to alpine activities). An introduction to mountaineering by an influential woman climber.
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